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Repellent
- adjective - a chemical substance that repels animals
- a compound with which fabrics are treated to repel water
- highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust;
- incapable of absorbing or mixing with; "a water-repellent fabric"; "plastic highly resistant to steam and water"
- serving or tending to repel; "he became rebarbative and prickly and spiteful"; "I find his obsequiousness repellent"
- the power to repel; "she knew many repellents to his advances"
Repelling
- verb - be repellent to; cause aversion in
- cause to move back by force or influence; "repel the enemy"; "push back the urge to smoke"; "beat back the invaders"
- fill with distaste; "This spoilt food disgusts me"
- force or drive back; "repel the attacker"; "fight off the onslaught"; "rebuff the attack"
- highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust;
- reject outright and bluntly; "She snubbed his proposal"
Repentant
- adjective - feeling or expressing remorse for misdeeds
Repenting
- verb - feel remorse for; feel sorry for; be contrite about
- turn away from sin or do penitence
Replacing
- verb - put back in position
- put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items; "the con artist replaced the original with a fake Rembrandt"; "substitute regular milk with fat-free milk"; "synonyms can be interchanged without a changing the context's meaning"
- put something back where it belongs; "replace the book on the shelf after you have finished reading it"; "please put the clean dishes back in the cabinet when you have washed them"
- substitute a person or thing for (another that is broken or inefficient or lost or no longer working or yielding what is expected); "He replaced the old razor blade"; "We need to replace the secretary that left a month ago"; "the insurance will replace the lost income"; "This antique vase can never be replaced"
- take the place or move into the position of; "Smith replaced Miller as CEO after Miller left"; "the computer has supplanted the slide rule"; "Mary replaced Susan as the team's captain and the highest-ran
Replaying
- verb - play (a melody) again
- play again; "We replayed the game"; "replay a point"
- repeat a game against the same opponent; "Princeton replayed Harvard"
- reproduce (a recording) on a recorder; "The lawyers played back the conversation to show that their client was innocent"
Repleting
- verb - fill to satisfaction; "I am sated"
Reporting
- verb - announce as the result of an investigation or experience or finding; "Dozens of incidents of wife beatings are reported daily in this city"; "The team reported significant advances in their research"
- announce one's presence; "I report to work every day at 9 o'clock"
- be responsible for reporting the details of, as in journalism; "Snow reported on China in the 1950's"; "The cub reporter covered New York City"
- complain about; make a charge against; "I reported her to the supervisor"
- make known to the authorities; "One student reported the other to the principal"
- the news as presented by reporters for newspapers or radio or television; "they accused the paper of biased coverage of race relations"
- to give an account or representation of in words; "Discreet Italian police described it in a manner typically continental"
Repotting
- verb - put in a new, usually larger, pot; "The plant had grown and had to be repotted"